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Ohio Jewish chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1983-12-22

Ohio Jewish Chronicle. (Columbus, Ohio), 1983-12-22, page 01

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VOL.61 NO. 52
DECEMBER 22,1983-TEVET16
Devoted to American
:and Jewish ideals.
ividence Published
On Gas Chambers
• • •
LONDON (JTA)-In light
of continued attempts to
deny the facts of the Holocaust, the World Jewish Congress reported last week the
publication in Germany of
an important book entitled
National-Socialist Mass Killings by Way of Poison Gas:
A Documentation.
According to the WJC research arm here, the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the
book is the first systematic
collection of documents and
reports by witnesses of that
gruesome chapter of Nazi
policy. It was a major undertaking, the collective work of
24 authors from Germany —
headed by State Attorney
Dr. Axel Ruckerl—Israel,
France, Poland, Austria and
The Netherlands.
Jewish Youth Held
In Synagogue Arson
WEST HARTFORD, Conn:
(JTA) — A 17-year-old Jewish youth, who was a psychiatric in-patient in a Connecticut hospital, was arrested
here last week and charged
with an arson fire that damaged a local synagogue of
which he was a member, as
well as three other arson attacks.
Barry Dov Schuss surrendered voluntarily to
authorities and was charged
with four counts of second
degree arson. Police said his
arrest closed the cases
which had caused widespread concern and fear in
the local Jewish community.
Deadline For B.J.
End Of Year Dance
Reservations Today
"This is the last day to
make reservations for the
End of Year Dance sponsored by Beth Jacob Sisterhood and Brotherhood," said
Jack Weisman, one of the co-
chairmen. "The annual
event, to be held Sat., Dec.
31, from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30
a.m. in the synagogue social
hall promises to be exciting."
The Bob Jolly Orchestra
will play for both dancing
and easy listening. Along
with a champagne fountain,
there will be a breakfast buffet of over 40 items featuring
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Mexican Senator Denounces Jews
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — The Jewish community is deeply .
disturbed by a speech in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies
denouncing Jews for alleged economic crimes and urging
that "We must put a stop to these scoundrels." The speaker
was Miguel Angel Olea Enriquez, the representative from
Chihuahua of the Partido Revolucioriario Institucional
(PRI), the ruling party in the Mexican government. Official
sources promptly assured the Jewish community that
Enriquez spoke for himself and that his anti-Semitic remarks
■ in no way reflect the position of the party or the government.
They pointed out that Mexico's Constitution holds all citizens
equal without regard to race or religion.
W. Germany Cracks Down On Neo-Nazis
BONN (JTA)—The biggest crackdown on neo-Nazis in
West Germany in recent years was undertaken recently. In a
nationwide coordinated action, police searched hundreds of
apartments and homes in nine federal states and confiscated.
large quantities of weapons, ammunition, Nazi symbols and
Nazi propaganda material. The crackdown was aimed primarily at the Action Front of National Socialists. According
to police, the hard core of the Front has become increasingly
violent. Members of the organization have been charged with
various offenses, ranging from displaying banned symbols to
complicity, in murders.
Italy, Israel Sign Accord
ROME (JTA)—Italy and Israel have signed a broad agreement defining their future economic, agricultural, scientific,
technological and cultural relationships and ways to deal
with problems arising for Israel's agricultural exports from
the impending admission of Spain and Portugal into the
European Economic Community (EEC).
Says Decision To Keep
Marines In Lebanon Not Political
WASHINGTON. (JTA) —
President Reagan, stressing
his determination to keep the
United States marines in
Lebanon, said last week that
his decision will not be determined by Presidential election year politics.
"I will tell you now, no decision that I'm going to make
on anything of this kind is related to the election or the
(nominating) conventions or
anything political," the
President said at an impromptu news conference at
the White House.
"There is no harder job, or
part of this job, than putting
our forces — let me say —
someplace where young men
and women could be endangered and, certainly, what
. we do in that regard is not
based on any political consideration."
Although most political experts expect Reagan to seek
a second term, he has not officially announced his candidacy. He is scheduled to announce his decision in a na
tionally televised speech
from the Oval Office Jan. 29.
When he was asked whether
he had already made his decision, he replied: "You'll
know Jan. 29, won't you?"
The President said the
U.S. will leave Lebanon only
if it achieves its objectives or
"if there was a complete collapse and there was no possibility of restoring order."
But he stressed, "We're
making more progress than
appears oh the surface" towards the objectives of hav-
United Jewish Fund Campaign
On Way To $4 Million Goal
"The 1984 United Jewish
Fund Campaign, at this
time, stands at $3 million toward a $4 million goal," announced Edwin M. Ellman,
1984 general chairman.
Two million plus was
raised at the Advance Gifts
Division, Wexner Affair,
making Monday, Dec. 12, a
record evening in the 1984
United Jewish Fund Campaign. The amount pledged
catapulted the campaign
achievement to its highest
total ever at this stage of the
campaign year, Ellman
said.
The evening was marked
by Leslie Wexner's account
of his recent four day informational and motivational
trip to Vienna, Munich and
Paris with eight community
leaders. He spoke of the
importance of cultivating
leadership for the strength of
the Jewish community in Columbus and in turn for Jewish survival in the rest of the
world. The trip demonstrated, he felt, the true
meaning of "noblesse oblige" — with rank comes
\
Pictured at the recent 1984 United Jewish Fund Campaign Advanced Gifts Division, Wexner Affair are (1. to
r.) Rabbi Herbert Friedman, Leslie Wexner and Jack
Wallick.
Early Copy Deadline
Chronicle office closed Monday,
Dec. 26 and Monday, jaiu 2.
Copy deadline for? the Dec; 29 issue is
noon, today, Thursday, Dec, 22. Deadline
for the Jan. 5 issue is noon, Thursday,
.Dec. 29.
responsibility — arid "generals as well as privates hold
rank and its incumbent
responsibilities."
Rabbi Herbert Friedman,
the keynote speaker, exhorted the group to feel excitement and passion for Israel and its continuing drive
toward independence.
"The enthusiasm, warmth
and generosity of the evening was outstanding; it cast
an attitude for the entire
campaign," remarked Ellman.
Present at the meeting representing the campaign
leadership were: Gary
Robins and Dennis Mellman,
chairman and co-chairman
of Advance Gifts; Edwin
Schottenstein, Jeffrey Paine
and Norman Traeger, vice
chairmen of Advance Gifts ;<,
Gordon Zacks, advisor to the
ing the government of President Amin Gemayel achieve
national reconciliation and
assume control over all of
Lebanon.
The President added that
the other members of the
multinationalforce—France,
Italy, and Britain — have all.
in the last few days "reaffirmed their determination
that the mission is sound and
that we're all going to stay
there."
The President stressed
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 3)
U.S. Publishes Report
On Soviet Compliance
Advance Gifts Division;
Margey Cheses and Jacki
Yenkin, chairwoman and co-
chairwoman of the Women's
Division; Nelson Genshaft
and Gary L. Schottenstein,
chairman and co-chairman
of the Young Men's Division,
and Victor Krupman, chairman of Project Renewal.
Jack Wallick, president of
the Columbus Jewish Federation was also present.
College Age Youth
To Attend Service
College age youth in the
Temple Israel family are
planning to, attend services
together on Friday, Dec. 23,
at 8 p.m.
An Oneg Shebat will follow
services.
WASHINGTON (WNS) -
"The drastic decline" in
Jewish emigration from,the
Soviet Union is the result of
"deliberate Soviet policy,"
not a drop in requests for
emigration, according to the
Reagan AdiriiriistrMoh:.' ?''"'""■
"The 'Soviet authorities
publicly claim, in fact, that
the Jewish emigration question has now been 'solved,' "
the Administration said in its
15th Semi-Annual Report On
Implementation of the Helsinki Final Act. "In the face
of all evidence to "the contrary, the Soviet authorities
claim there no longer are
any Jewish refusniks in the:
Soviet Union," the report
said.
The report was submitted
Dec. 5 by Secretary of State
George Shultz, on behalf of
President Reagan, to Rep.
Dante Fascel (D. Fla) chairman of the Commission On
Security and Cooperation in
Europe which monitors the
Helsinki accords. It covers
the period June 1-Nov. 30,
. 1983.
According to the report,
approximately 850 Jews received exit visas to emigrate
to Israel from April 1
through Sept. 30,1983. While
this is compatible to the 741
for the previous six months,
it was "a significant decline" from the 1,286 who
emigrated during the corresponding period in 1982.
About 1,500 Jews are expected to have emigrated
from the. USSR by the end of
this year as compared to
2,671 last year, 8,127 in 1981
and 20,345 in 1980, the report
said. The peak year was 1979
when 50,461 Jews left the Soviet Union.
The Administration's report also rioted the claims by
the Soviet authorities that
letters of invitation received
by Soviet Jews from abroad
are fraudulent; that the Soviet authorities continue to
harass Western visitors who
seek to visit Soviet Jews and
that the USSR has formed an
"Anti-Zionist Committee" to
develop the Soviet "line"
that there is no longer a Jewish emigration problem.
On; Rumania, the report
said that while the emigration Of Jews to Israel is restricted, it is allowed largely
on a family reunification
basis. However, there are
long delays, sometimes up to
three years. This issue is
expected to be discussed in
Washington by the U.S. and
Rumanian governments
next spring.
Despite the gloomy assessment in the 107-page semiannual report, the Administration, offers some optimism by, noting that the
Madrid follow-up conference
on the Helsinki agreements
ended in September with a
final document that
strengthened some of the human rights provisions of the
Helsinki agreement.
BLOOD Day is
Today, Dec. 22,
at The Leo Yassenoff
Jewish Center
12-6 p.m.
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ZJW// Serving Columbia and Central Ohio Jewish Community lor Over 60 Years ~\jP§X.
UIBRARY, OHIO HISTORICAL SOC4*/T^ 'i f
1982
GOl.
O m
VELMa AVE.
0, 43211
EXCH
VOL.61 NO. 52
DECEMBER 22,1983-TEVET16
Devoted to American
:and Jewish ideals.
ividence Published
On Gas Chambers
• • •
LONDON (JTA)-In light
of continued attempts to
deny the facts of the Holocaust, the World Jewish Congress reported last week the
publication in Germany of
an important book entitled
National-Socialist Mass Killings by Way of Poison Gas:
A Documentation.
According to the WJC research arm here, the Institute of Jewish Affairs, the
book is the first systematic
collection of documents and
reports by witnesses of that
gruesome chapter of Nazi
policy. It was a major undertaking, the collective work of
24 authors from Germany —
headed by State Attorney
Dr. Axel Ruckerl—Israel,
France, Poland, Austria and
The Netherlands.
Jewish Youth Held
In Synagogue Arson
WEST HARTFORD, Conn:
(JTA) — A 17-year-old Jewish youth, who was a psychiatric in-patient in a Connecticut hospital, was arrested
here last week and charged
with an arson fire that damaged a local synagogue of
which he was a member, as
well as three other arson attacks.
Barry Dov Schuss surrendered voluntarily to
authorities and was charged
with four counts of second
degree arson. Police said his
arrest closed the cases
which had caused widespread concern and fear in
the local Jewish community.
Deadline For B.J.
End Of Year Dance
Reservations Today
"This is the last day to
make reservations for the
End of Year Dance sponsored by Beth Jacob Sisterhood and Brotherhood," said
Jack Weisman, one of the co-
chairmen. "The annual
event, to be held Sat., Dec.
31, from 9:30 p.m. to 1:30
a.m. in the synagogue social
hall promises to be exciting."
The Bob Jolly Orchestra
will play for both dancing
and easy listening. Along
with a champagne fountain,
there will be a breakfast buffet of over 40 items featuring
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 4)
Mexican Senator Denounces Jews
MEXICO CITY (JTA) — The Jewish community is deeply .
disturbed by a speech in the Mexican Chamber of Deputies
denouncing Jews for alleged economic crimes and urging
that "We must put a stop to these scoundrels." The speaker
was Miguel Angel Olea Enriquez, the representative from
Chihuahua of the Partido Revolucioriario Institucional
(PRI), the ruling party in the Mexican government. Official
sources promptly assured the Jewish community that
Enriquez spoke for himself and that his anti-Semitic remarks
■ in no way reflect the position of the party or the government.
They pointed out that Mexico's Constitution holds all citizens
equal without regard to race or religion.
W. Germany Cracks Down On Neo-Nazis
BONN (JTA)—The biggest crackdown on neo-Nazis in
West Germany in recent years was undertaken recently. In a
nationwide coordinated action, police searched hundreds of
apartments and homes in nine federal states and confiscated.
large quantities of weapons, ammunition, Nazi symbols and
Nazi propaganda material. The crackdown was aimed primarily at the Action Front of National Socialists. According
to police, the hard core of the Front has become increasingly
violent. Members of the organization have been charged with
various offenses, ranging from displaying banned symbols to
complicity, in murders.
Italy, Israel Sign Accord
ROME (JTA)—Italy and Israel have signed a broad agreement defining their future economic, agricultural, scientific,
technological and cultural relationships and ways to deal
with problems arising for Israel's agricultural exports from
the impending admission of Spain and Portugal into the
European Economic Community (EEC).
Says Decision To Keep
Marines In Lebanon Not Political
WASHINGTON. (JTA) —
President Reagan, stressing
his determination to keep the
United States marines in
Lebanon, said last week that
his decision will not be determined by Presidential election year politics.
"I will tell you now, no decision that I'm going to make
on anything of this kind is related to the election or the
(nominating) conventions or
anything political," the
President said at an impromptu news conference at
the White House.
"There is no harder job, or
part of this job, than putting
our forces — let me say —
someplace where young men
and women could be endangered and, certainly, what
. we do in that regard is not
based on any political consideration."
Although most political experts expect Reagan to seek
a second term, he has not officially announced his candidacy. He is scheduled to announce his decision in a na
tionally televised speech
from the Oval Office Jan. 29.
When he was asked whether
he had already made his decision, he replied: "You'll
know Jan. 29, won't you?"
The President said the
U.S. will leave Lebanon only
if it achieves its objectives or
"if there was a complete collapse and there was no possibility of restoring order."
But he stressed, "We're
making more progress than
appears oh the surface" towards the objectives of hav-
United Jewish Fund Campaign
On Way To $4 Million Goal
"The 1984 United Jewish
Fund Campaign, at this
time, stands at $3 million toward a $4 million goal," announced Edwin M. Ellman,
1984 general chairman.
Two million plus was
raised at the Advance Gifts
Division, Wexner Affair,
making Monday, Dec. 12, a
record evening in the 1984
United Jewish Fund Campaign. The amount pledged
catapulted the campaign
achievement to its highest
total ever at this stage of the
campaign year, Ellman
said.
The evening was marked
by Leslie Wexner's account
of his recent four day informational and motivational
trip to Vienna, Munich and
Paris with eight community
leaders. He spoke of the
importance of cultivating
leadership for the strength of
the Jewish community in Columbus and in turn for Jewish survival in the rest of the
world. The trip demonstrated, he felt, the true
meaning of "noblesse oblige" — with rank comes
\
Pictured at the recent 1984 United Jewish Fund Campaign Advanced Gifts Division, Wexner Affair are (1. to
r.) Rabbi Herbert Friedman, Leslie Wexner and Jack
Wallick.
Early Copy Deadline
Chronicle office closed Monday,
Dec. 26 and Monday, jaiu 2.
Copy deadline for? the Dec; 29 issue is
noon, today, Thursday, Dec, 22. Deadline
for the Jan. 5 issue is noon, Thursday,
.Dec. 29.
responsibility — arid "generals as well as privates hold
rank and its incumbent
responsibilities."
Rabbi Herbert Friedman,
the keynote speaker, exhorted the group to feel excitement and passion for Israel and its continuing drive
toward independence.
"The enthusiasm, warmth
and generosity of the evening was outstanding; it cast
an attitude for the entire
campaign," remarked Ellman.
Present at the meeting representing the campaign
leadership were: Gary
Robins and Dennis Mellman,
chairman and co-chairman
of Advance Gifts; Edwin
Schottenstein, Jeffrey Paine
and Norman Traeger, vice
chairmen of Advance Gifts ;